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Polymarket puts “Another Fed rate hike in 2026?” at 81%, and the odds just jumped. As of September 30, 2026, traders on Polymarket price roughly an 81% implied probability that the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at least once more before year-end, a move of about 10 points in 24 hours on unusually heavy volume.…
A decade ago, most merchants read payment data like a utility bill: check the total once a month, confirm it looks roughly right, move on. Payment performance now sits close enough to revenue that a merchant who can’t see why transactions fail is losing sales it never records. For background, see our recent coverage. Payment…
ShinyHunters says it never intended to publish the sensitive personal data it claims to have stolen from the FBI, but the group also admits it cannot guarantee that a smaller sample already shared with journalists will stay private. The statement, sent to CBC News on Monday, September 29, 2026, marks the latest twist in a…
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit shut down EvilTokens on September 22, 2026, ending a seven-month run that saw the AI-built phishing service compromise more than 12,000 Microsoft 365 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations worldwide. The takedown, backed by a federal court order out of the Eastern District of Virginia, seized 50 websites and disabled more than…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered launched on September 29, 2026, as a free upgrade for existing owners on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Within hours, AMD Radeon owners started posting screenshots of grass rendering solid black, hair turning into glowing artifacts, and environments missing entire stretches of vegetation. Nvidia GeForce owners,…
Three mechanical keyboards released within a five-month window in 2026 are forcing a question that didn’t used to have a clean answer: is a $99.99 wired board, a $149.99 touchscreen board, or a $119.99 wireless board with 8,000Hz polling actually the smarter buy right now? The Glorious GMMK Eternal launched September 8, the Turtle Beach…
VS Code ships a native Test Explorer, but out of the box it only understands testing frameworks that already have an extension wired up. If your team runs a custom test runner, an internal DSL, or a framework the Marketplace hasn’t caught up to, the built-in Testing view stays empty. The fix is the Testing…
Samsung has started shipping the Portable SSD P9, a USB4 external drive the company calls the world’s first 8TB portable SSD built on that interface, with rated sequential speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s. The rollout, confirmed by Samsung’s own newsroom and Samsung Semiconductor’s global site, lands at an awkward moment for storage buyers: NAND…
AYANEO opened preorders on its cheapest handheld yet this week, and the bigger story isn’t the $79 price tag. It’s what the company left out of the pitch. When the AYANEO KONKR Pocket Block first surfaced in May 2026, it was billed as an “AI-powered” retro handheld. By the time it went up for preorder…
US players played car games roughly 78 million times across in the last year, according to Poki’s Game Intelligence: Car Games report. At an average of 332 seconds per play, that adds up to about 7.2 million hours of play in a single year. Numbers at that scale are hard to picture, so this feature…
